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...rather liked being a kid. Immaturity has always struck me as a good trait, whether it be making dumb jokes, shooting rubber bands at people or watching "Scooby Doo." And the Mystery Machine gang is just as cool as it was in second grade...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Peter Pan Grows Up | 7/23/1996 | See Source »

Really, there are so many songs about rainbows because we keep wondering what s on the other side, a trait which provides fine testimony to our intellectual curiosity...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: Have a Happy Hour | 6/22/1996 | See Source »

...White House is touchy about Morris because he is the master of triangulation who helped engineer the dramatic gallop to the political center that revived Clinton's presidency and because his lack of ideological conviction mirrors the same trait critics see in Clinton. Morris, 48, has a history of working for both Democrats and Republicans--a career strategy that has made him a traitor in the eyes of people in both parties. He could work simultaneously for Jesse Helms and Mother Teresa and see no inherent contradiction. (Helms, in fact, has been a Morris client; the Saint of Calcutta hasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME 25: THEY RANGE IN AGE FROM 31 TO 67 | 6/17/1996 | See Source »

...this attention to friendship and the feelings of others that many say is Thomas' greatest trait. People love her almost as much as they love to talk about her. Cahn tells stories of Thomas bringing food to sick friends and being the friend on whom he can always count. She was the most consistent letter writer to Cahn when he was in Honduras last summer. She sent him an article she ripped out of an in-flight magazine that was about a woman who worked in Honduras--it had nothing to do with anything else Cahn was doing--and sent...

Author: By Theodore K. Gideonse, | Title: Not Exactly Miss Manners | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

Those men instilled in Brown what would become his most salient trait: his incandescent self-confidence. "What stuck with Ron was how great it was that they were there, and how he was going to be like them," recalled his former assistant, Melissa Moss. "He was missing the computer chip that said, 'Caution, you can't do this.'" The hotel also offered young Ron his first chance to sample the rewards of peddling influence. Until guests like Joe Louis got wind of the scheme and put a stop to it, he made a brief career of badgering famous guests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JOYFUL POWER BROKER | 4/15/1996 | See Source »

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